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Fox won the night with adults 18-49, barely edging out CBS. Following its post Super Bowl outing on Sunday, Glee was up only 2 percent versus its last Tuesday original on December 7 to a 4.5 rating in adults 18-49. Raising Hope was steady versus its last original with a 2.8 adults 18-49 rating. The light is red for Traffic Light, which premiered to a 1.9 adults 18-49 rating, though Fox can at least boast that 1.9 is 19% higher than the average for the now canceled Running Wilde.

Against originals on Fox, CBS’s NCIS had a 4.2 adults 18-49 rating, down 9% from last week, but once again cleared 20 million total viewers. NCIS: LA was down 8% to a 3.5 adults 18-49 rating and The Good Wife was steady with a 2.2 adults 18-49 rating.

NBC’s The Biggest Loser: Couples was down 11% to a 3.0 adults 18-49 rating and Parenthood dropped 14% to a 1.9 rating.

No Ordinary Family tied a series low with a 1.5 adults 18-49 rating. Both V (1.8 adults 18-49 rating) and Detroit 1-8-7 (1.3) inched up from last week, but that’s nothing to shout about.

With Glee back and no special wedding episode, One Tree Hill fell dramatically, dropping more than 40% from last week’s 1.2 adults 18-49 rating to a 0.7. Hellcats was also down a tenth with adults 18-49. In CW’s target women 18-34 demographic, One Tree Hill scored a 1.3 rating (down from last week’s 2.4) and Hellcats drew a 1.2 rating down from last week’s 1.3.

• At 12:35 a.m., “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” (1.3/5 in metered-market households) trailed CBS’s “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” (1.5/5). In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, “Late Night” (0.6/4 in 18-49) topped “Late Late Show” (0.5/3).

• At 1:35 a.m., Last Call with Carson Daly” averaged a 0.8/3 in metered-market households and a 0.4/3 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.

NOTE: All national ratings are “live plus same day” from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise indicated.

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